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HarperCollins
February 2012
On Sale: February 1, 2012
304 pages ISBN: 0061859397 EAN: 9780061859397 Kindle: B005GFQ53A Paperback / e-Book
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Thriller
Riveting, dark, and swift, Budapest Noir is a brilliant
debut from a new international voice. Vilmos Kondor artfully
captures pre-war Budapest, its social strata, politics, and
bustling street life in this gripping and evocative thriller.
In October 1936, Hungary’s prime minister dies before his
dream of building a fascist state can be realized. But on
the streets of Budapest, it’s business as usual for crime
reporter Zsigmond Gordon as he follows a tip to a crime
scene where a beautiful woman lies dead with only a Jewish
prayer book in her purse. Disturbed by the bizarre circumstances of her death, Gordon
is determined to investigate how such a beautiful, religious
woman could end up dead in one of Budapest’s seedier
neighborhoods. He’ll follow the leads through the city’s
dark underbelly replete with pornographers, crime
syndicates, and Communist cells to the highest echelons of
power—the corrupt politicians and desperate businessmen
trying to gain their favor. Gordon soon uncovers the identity of the victim: the
disinherited scion of one of Hungary’s leading executives.
Her father might be well-connected—with economic and
political ties to leaders in Germany—so long as he keeps
secret the fact that he was once Jewish.
With masterful suspense and political intrigue reminiscent
of the work of Alan Furst and Henning Mankell, Budapest Noir
is a richly atmospheric tale of murder and betrayal.
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